The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William GoldingOne tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William GoldingI think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
William Golding